Whenever a superintendent comes in as a change agent and makes decisions in isolation from the public he serves, the outcome will always be challenged.

One way or the other, the public will insist on being engaged in decisions that affect their children's schools. Wouldn't it be less trouble and more productive to simply include them from the very beginning?

The Baltimore County Board of Education needs to restore sibling priority for kindergarten admission to magnet elementary schools. While the intentions of revoking sibling priority may have been good, the impact on Baltimore County families and on the school system itself will be overwhelmingly...

I am responding to your article "Baltimore County curriculum contract ended amid feuding" (April 27) by Liz Bowie. I am retiring after teaching elementary school in Baltimore County Public Schools for 28 years — 27 of which were fabulous, this past year a nightmare. In April, 2013 I wrote to Abby...

Baltimore County Superintendent Dallas Dance has demonstrated, again, why having a superintendent with virtually no teaching experience a bad idea. His endorsement and the school board's approval of a $205 million initiative to provide a laptop for every teacher and every student in Baltimore County...

I don't know if it was poor reporting by The Sun or poor accounting by Baltimore County School Superintendent Dallas Dance, but in an article about technology in schools you recently wrote that Mr. Dance would "pay for the computers in part by evaluating whether central office employees who leave...